Collaborators

Pascale ANDERLE, PhD, Statistics Online & Translational medicine & Entrepreneurship Master Coordinator

Pascale Anderle graduated in pharmacy from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ). After gaining a PhD degree in life science from the ETHZ she then worked for a year at Covance CLS, Geneva in the field of clinical trials. Later, she moved to the USA for a postdoc experience in the lab of Wolfgang Sadee at UCSF San Francisco and OSU, Ohio concentrating on absorption and genomics in the intestine. Afterwards, she joined the groups of Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl and Michel Aguet as postdoc fellow at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), partially in collaboration with the Nestle Research Center (NRC). The focus of her studies were on mucosal intestinal immunity and colon cancer and the use of genomics and in silico analysis. Being granted an EU project she moved to to Istituto Oncologico della Svizzera Italiana (IOSI, Bellinzona) as junior group leader and then upon being invited to join a NCCR project to the University of Bern. During this period she was granted a CAS in applied statistics.
She is now a project coordinator for Statistics Online and the coordinator of the Master of Translational Medicine & Entrepreneurship of the SITEM/INSEL Foundation and the University of Bern. She participates in teaching activities at the University of Lausanne and ETHZ.

Contact
e-mail: Pascale.Anderle@HSeT.org
Phone:+41 21 692 58 69
Address: HSeT Foundation
Chemin des Boveresses 155
CH-1066 Epalinges
Switzerland

Rafaela da Silva holds a Diploma in Pharmacy from the State University of Londrina (Brazil) and a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Zürich. She published over 50 scientific articles in prestigious international journals, in the area of cardiovascular research, in the field of atherosclerosis, aneurysm, endothelial function and shear stress biomechanics.

Before she joined HSeT, she worked as Senior Scientific Project Manager and Head of the Master in Translational Medicine and Biomedical Entrepreneurship at sitem-insel School.

She worked at EPFL and Whiuri Cardiovascular Institute (Finland) as a scientist, Visiting Professor at the Department of Cardiology- Hopitaux Universitaires de Genève, and as an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). In January 2023, Rafaela joined HSeT as Senior Scientific Program Manager, in which she is actively involved in the Distance Learning Educational Programme in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (https://iagg-fge.org). Since October 2023, Rafaela also works as an e-learning Consultant for the distance learning Portuguese courses at the Word Intellectual Property Organization.

Contact
Tel.: +41 799344845
Email: Rafaela.dasilva@hset.org

Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl is emeritus Professor at the University of Lausanne, and was affiliated member of the Swiss Institute of Cancer Research (ISREC). He used to work on mucosal immunity and vaccinology. He was a co-founder of EuroVacc, a Foundation active in the development of HIV vaccines, He is a member of EMBO. He was the co- founder of OraVax, Inc, now part of Sanofi Pasteur. He was the Founder, with Michelle and Bernard Rossier of the HSeT Foundation in 2006.

Contact:
e-mail: Jean-Pierre.Kraehenbuhl@HSeT.org
Phone: +41 21 692 5856
Address: HSeT Foundation
c/o Center of Immunity and Infection (CIIL)
Chemin des Boveresses 155
CH-1066 Epalinges, Switzerland

Jozsef Zoltan KISS obtained his M.D degree at the Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary in 1979.  He was a research associate at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary from 1979 to1981, a  Research associate at the Department of Anatomy, University of Iowa, College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA  from 1981 to 1982, a  Visiting associate in the  Laboratory of Cell Biology, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA from 1983 to1984, a Research associate at the  Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary from 1985 to 1986, a Visiting scientist, Rudolf Magnus Institute, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1986.

In 1986, he joined the University of Geneva Medical School, first as a junior faculty member and in 2007 as a full professor, at the Department of Fundamental Neuroscience. He retired in 2018.

He was and still is interested in developmental mechanisms that are critical for neuronal migration and circuit formation in the cerebral cortex as well as the molecular control of neural progenitor migration with the aim to direct these cells to sites of injury to achieve structural repair.

Contact
e-mail: Jozsef.Kiss@unige.ch
Phone: +41 22 379 52 02
Address: UNIGE  Medical School

François Verrey is Professor Emeritus of Physiology at the University of Zurich. After high school in Zurich and medical school in Lausanne, he acted as ICRC delegate in Israel and resident in Internal Medicine at the CHUV. He then worked as postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lausanne, the ISREC and Columbia University, and started 1991 his own research group at the Institute of Physiology of the University of Zurich. He became Professor in 2001 and was director of the Institute from 2006-2014. He was vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine, member of the research council of the SNSF and founder and director of the National Center of Competence in Research Kidney.CH until 2018. His research centered around epithelial transports in kidney and intestine, mainly regarding aldosterone-regulated sodium transport, and later transport and role of amino acids. Currently he is mainly engaged in the HSeT Foundation and as director of the Swiss Kidney Foundation.

Contact
e-mail: francois.verrey@uzh.ch
Address: Institute of Physiology, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich

José Torralbo, currently an IT Consultant at Amaris in Barcelona, has an extensive background in the information technology sector. Prior to joining Amaris, José served in various roles at notable companies. At Amaris, José Torralbo was in charge of « .NET, » a software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows and which is used by the HSeT platform.

Carolina Barroco studied Data Science and AI at PUCRS (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul). She is and is responsible for digital marketing at HSeT, focusing on the production of social media content.